New Year Message
God be with you. The old year
has passed. We are commencing this New Year with added knowledge and
experiences. These experiences and knowledge we have obtained through the 365
days of the past year. Through the experiences of each day we have learnt
something new. In the same way the 366 days stretches before you. You may add
on to your knowledge and experience and get all the more wiser and benefit
yourself and others.
God who has sent you into this
human world regards your life as a process of positive evolution. God’s plan
for man (who is the only creature having a mind and intellect) is for evolution
and progress in every way because this earth life is meant to give each
individual a scope that may end in total perfection.
You have been told this human
earth is a school for perfection. God’s Divine perfection is already within you
but in a latent form, therefore you are apt to forget it. Your body from its
head to foot is a Royal and Divine Palace for GOD to reside in. God’s throne is
your spiritual Heart situated on the right side of your chest. It is not the
anatomical heart which pumps blood throughout your physical body. This is why
God is called ANTARYAMIN which means the one who dwells in your spiritual
Heart. You are meant to gradually unfold this Divine perfection within you and
consciously make this Divine perfection completely manifest in your life and
reflect in and through your day-to-day activities. Each day you must learn
something new and carry this process onward that ultimately will make you a
perfect human being ethically and spiritually. All the lessons you have learnt
in all the 365 days of the year must now be applied in the days that are
stretching before you in the new year. Body, mind and intellect should all go
towards evolution to Perfection.
God has sent you to this human
world not to be a static creature with no change or progress. God has sent you
not to remain in the same condition of both body and intellect. God’s plan for
you is evolution until you reach perfection. Body, mind, intellect and that
which is imperishable within the perishable, all of them have to attain a state
of completeness and Perfection.
In this matter, above
referred, there is no other Indian scripture, so complete and thorough, giving
the entire process of progress to perfection in all its aspects in its eighteen
chapters in which Lord Krishna brings his friend Arjuna from a state of doubt
and confusion to a state of certainty and action. This scripture is Srimad
Bhagavad Gita.
In Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna
tells Arjuna that the body, mind and intellect are restricted in their
activities and are not above error. The soul which is imperishable is evolving
to aid each other to bring the individual upon the State of Perfection where it
is neither troubled nor affected by wind, water, or fire or any weapon. The
individual must raise himself from doubt to faith and the knowledge of a
perishable being to imperishable being. That is why man is born to attain this
knowledge and become fearless. This was the reason why Dr. Anne Besant of
Theosophical Society liked the Bhagavad Gita so much and persuaded others to
follow its teachings in life.
As this is my New Year’s
Message I want all readers to know that the purpose of life is evolutionary
until you reach immortality by Realizing that body and Soul (Atman) are quite
different. Body is born and it dies. Death is inevitable to the body. In this
body house, the Soul remains immortal and imperishable. This is what we call
Atman (Soul). Your Atman is identical with Satchidananda Atman or Brahman. The
Ultimate Spiritual Realization is therefore the experience of "Aham
Brahmasmi". In this human world bodies come and go. But that which gives
it life is the imperishable Atman dwelling within you.
This is my vital message to
one and all the readers. They must base their lives upon this fundamental truth
and be fearless and free.
May God and Gurudev bless you
to understand and follow this message in your life from this very moment when
you are reading this!
I wish you a happy and
progressive new year!
Excerpts from:
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